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You can claim the track is "projected" on average to be ahead by one year but it still does not benefit the smart kids.  You are no longer allowed to take Algebra I in 6th grade. They dumb down the curriculum in elementary school so you can not make that pathway.

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If you're saying that the entire math curriculum has been "dumbed down" because a very small number of students who previously would have taken Algebra I in 6th grade and calculus in 10th grade now must take Algebra I in 7th grade and calculus in 11th grade -- well, ok. But I disagree with you.[/quote]

It is dumbed down for the smarter kids, yes.  And at my daughter's ES school [b]there were over 20 of 97 kids that went on to Algebra 1 years ago[/b].  It wasn't that small of a number.  There are just many more uneducated children coming into the MCPS system these days and shrinking the percentage of these kids.  Not the actual number but percentage.  But that is not those kid's fault but yet they have to pay that price.  [/quote]

From what I understand, the vast majority of kids that were tracked too quickly were missing basic math facts.  [b]There are *very* few kids that are so good in math that they should take Algebra 1 in 6th grade[/b].  For most kids that are good in math, taking Algebra 1 in 7th is appropriate.

I also wonder how many of those kids that took Algebra in 6th grade also were tutored outside school (at home or other).  I know there are those that didn't.  But I'm thinking most kids probably had to have help outside school.  [/quote]

I agree.  My daughter went to an HGC; she routinely scores at the 99th percentile on the MAP-M test; she's on track for Algebra in 7th grade.  In other words she's a VERY good math student.   I also don't think she would be ready for Algebra in 6th.  I think the vast majority of kids who did Algebra in 6th had a lot of outside tutoring.  I'm sure there are math prodigies that could handle it in 6th (or sooner) and I'd guess that MCPS would accommodate those few students.  [/quote]

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